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Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

In my case it wasn't the boot entry being removed. It actually ate the partition. When installing Linux Mint, I resized the Windows partition in Linux. Then I noticed that Windows absolutely didn't recognize that change, and thought its partition is still as big as it used to. Then on a restart it hit me with the "Repairing drive C:" which killed the Linux partition leaving just something corrupted.
"Repairing"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows: "Let me repair Linux for you"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Ew, you've got a linux on your windshield, lemme just hit the wipers for you real quick

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried first resizing the windows partition inside windows? That's what I did and my dual boot has stayed intact

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yep, that's what I did later and it worked.